PREFACE. We are indebted to the following authors and publishers for permission to include copyright poems in our Anthology:— To Mrs Coventry Patmore for the use of two odes by the late Coventry Patmore in The Unknown Eros'; to Mrs Meynell for "Veni, Creator," from her volume of Poems'; to Mrs Henry Lucas for several selections from her compilation, The Jewish Year'; to Miss Nina Davis for two of her translations from the Hebrew contributed to the Jewish Quarterly Review'; to the Poet Laureate for passages from 'Prince Lucifer,' The Tower of Babel,' and 'Madonna's Child' respectively; to Mr Rudyard Kipling and his publishers in this country and the United States (Messrs Macmillan and Co. and the Doubleday and M'Clure Co. of New York) for "L'Envoi" from 'Life's Handicap'; to Sir Lewis Morris for three selections from his collected Poetical Works'; to the Dean of Ely for two pieces from Bryhtnoth's Prayer and other Poems'; to Mr Robert Bridges for his "Pater Noster "; to Mr Theodore Watts-Dunton for his "John the Pilgrim"; to Mr P. J. Bailey for a passage from Festus'; to Mr W. E. Henley for "Out of the Night," with the consent of Messrs David Nutt; to the Rev. H. C. Beeching for his "Prayer of a Boy"; to Mr Robert Whitelaw of Rugby and his publishers for passages from his translations of Sophocles; to Mr F. S. Ellis and Mr Cockerell, the trustees of the literary property of the late William Morris, for two passages from the Earthly Paradise'; to Messrs Ellis and Elvey for four pieces by the late D. G. Rossetti; to Messrs George Bell and Sons for a poem by the late Thomas Ashe; to Messrs Chatto and Windus for two poems by the late Arthur O'Shaughnessy; to Messrs Macmillan and Co., who more than any other one firm of publishers are associated with the poetry of the nineteenth century, for placing at our disposal the passages we coveted from the works of Christina Rossetti, of Matthew Arnold, and of Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyám'; and to Messrs Blackwood and Sons, the courteous publishers of this volume, for poems by George Eliot and the late Mrs Oliphant respectively. To each and all of these we gladly take the present opportunity of recording our debt of hearty gratitude for the advantage which our work derives from their generous and ready assistance, accompanied in some instances by valuable letters of encouragement and advice. |